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2 unusual facts about Yann Arthus-Bertrand


Isabelle Delannoy

2010 : Des Forêts et des Hommes, (Forests and Men) by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, official short film of the UN year of the forest.

Port-Cros

The photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand is working on the restoration of the fort at Port-Man.


Amour, Amour

Plastic Bertrand had previously achieved success with "Ça plane pour moi" in 1977, a decade before the Eurovision appearance and had had a series of hits in the francophone world all through the late 70s and early 80s.

Australia II

The crew of Australia II for the America's Cup races was John Bertrand (Skipper), Colin Beashel, Will Baillieu, Peter Costello, Damian Fewster, Ken Judge, Skip Lissiman, John Longley, Brian Richardson, Phil Smidmore, Grant Simmer, Hugh Treharne.

Bertram's Weaver

Bertram's Weaver (Ploceus bertrandi), sometimes called Bertrand's Weaver, is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.

Bertrand Berry

In August of 2011 Berry began hosting a radio show on The Fan AM 1060 KDUS in Phoenix called "The Bertrand Berry Show" with Mike Grose every weekday from 1:00 to 3:00.

Bertrand du Pouget

The Name of the Rose - a historical novel by Umberto Eco in which Bertrand du Pouget is one of the characters.

Bertrand Hallward

Bertrand Hallward (24 May 1901 – 17 November 2003) was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.

Bertrand of Comminges

Through his mother's side of the family, Bertrand was related to the Counts of Toulouse, William IV and Raymond IV of Saint-Gilles, who were his cousins.

Bertrand Robert

Bertrand Robert (born on November 16, 1983 in Saint-Benoît) is a French footballer.

Bertrand Teyou

Bertrand Zepherin Teyou (born 1969) is a Cameroonian author who was imprisoned from November 2010 to May 2011 on charges of insulting Chantal Biya, the wife of President Paul Biya in a recent book and for trying to hold a public reading of this book.

Bison Dele

On 6 July 2002 Dele and his girlfriend, Serena Karlan, along with skipper Bertrand Saldo, sailed from Tahiti on Dele's catamaran, the Hukuna Matata.

Cadomian Orogeny

L Bertrand gave the orogeny its name in 1921, naming it after Cadomus the Gaulish name for Caen in Normandy.

Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book

An English tourist spends a day photographing the interior of the eponymous cathedral and is encouraged by the sacristan to buy an unusual manuscript volume.

Copeland–Erdős constant

The constant is irrational; this can be proven with Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions or Bertrand's postulate (Hardy and Wright, p. 113) or Ramare's theorem that every even integer is a sum of at most six primes.

Élodie Bertrand

Elodie Bertrand (born 9 January 1981) is a French sailor who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Elliott 6m class with Claire Leroy and Marie Riou coming 6th overall.

Émile Bertrand

Émile Bertrand (1844–1909) was a French mineralogist, in honour of whom Bertrandite was named by Alexis Damour.

Émile Mbamba

Émile Bertrand Mbamba (born 27 October 1982 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian football striker, who currently plays for Indonesia Premier League side Persema Malang.

Emmanuelle Bertrand

Emmanuelle Bertrand (born on 5 November 1971 in Firminy, Loire) is a French cellist.

Flying teapot

Russell's teapot, a philosophical analogy first coined by Bertrand Russell

Frankfort, Illinois

Comedian Bernie Mac, Bishop singer Paulette Bertrand, and Styx singer Dennis DeYoung had homes and lived in Frankfort for a good portion of their lives.

Gabriel Bertrand

He then went to the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where he studied organic bases and amino acids under Gabriel Bertrand.

Gundoald

Gundowald fled to Comminges and Guntram's army set down to besiege the citadel (now known as Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges).

Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford

Leonard died ca 1693, in Paris very likely, and Anne remarried in the Church of St Eustace, Paris, in 1693 with the knight Bertrand Chohan de Coetcandec, son of Francois and Xillone de Kermeno, originated from Brittany.

Infamous 2

In New Marais, they find the city under the control of wealthy industrialist Joseph Bertrand III (Graham McTavish) and his anti-conduit militia.

Isabelle Delannoy

She joined the agency of Yann Arthus-Bertrand and collaborated on his book assessing the state of the planet La Terre Vue du Ciel (Earth from above) which became a world-wide success.

J. Rayburn Bertrand

In the election of 1972, Democrat Kenneth Francis "Kenny" Bowen (whom Bertrand had defeated in 1968 when Bowen was a Republican) was elected mayor.

Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes

Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes (born 13 May 1952 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a former football goalkeeper from France, who earned eleven international caps for the French national team during the 1970s and was part of the French team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.

John H. Striebel

Born in Bertrand, Michigan, Striebel began working at the age of 14 as a political cartoonist for the South Bend Daily News, receiving recognition as the youngest front-page cartoonist in the country.

Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux

With F. A. Souleyet and Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite, commandée par M. Vaillant capitaine de vaisseau, publié par ordre du roi sous les auspices du département de la Marine. Zoologie 2 vols.Bertrand, Paris, 15 vols.

La Bourdonnais

Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795-1840), chess player and grandson of Bertrand-François

Le Spleen de Paris

Though inspired by Bertrand, Baudelaire's prose poems were based on Parisian contemporary life instead of the medieval background which Bertrand employed.

Marcheline Bertrand

-- search for Woods Road Productions on Corporation Wiki dot com --> In 2005, Bertrand was the executive producer of the documentary Trudell, which chronicles the life and work of Santee Sioux musician and activist John Trudell.

During her early years as an actress, Bertrand studied with Lee Strasberg.

Bertrand and her partner John Trudell founded the All Tribes Foundation, to support the cultural and economic survival of Native peoples.

Niles Charter Township, Michigan

After the Potowatomi ceded their lands to the federal government with the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, Daniel G. Garnsey obtained the permission of U.S. President Andrew Jackson and the consent of Mrs. Bertrand to locate a village on her land.

Nyzette Cheveron

The witch hunt in the Ardennes also spread to Habiemont, where Mariette Estante was killed, Les Forges, where Anne des Forges was tortured to confess, and Izier, where Maroie Bertrand (whose relative had been burned alive in 1586) was strangled and burnt in January 1606.

On Disobedience and other essays

Prophets and Priest originally appeared in Ralph Schoenman,Bertrand Russell, Philosopher of the Century: Essays in His Honour, 1967

Raphaël Millet

From 2002 to 2006, he was posted as Cultural attaché in the Singapore, where he supervised the programming of the annual French Film Festival, and where he organised the outdoor exhibition Earth from Above (La Terre vue du ciel) by Yann Arthus-Bertrand on Orchard Road.

Richard Béliveau

Additionally, he holds the Claude-Bertrand Chair in Neurosurgery at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.

Ryan Bertrand

Bertrand became popular with the Carrow Road crowd earning him the nickname 'Plastic' in reference to the Belgian singer Plastic Bertrand.

Solange Bertrand

Born in Montigny-lès-Metz, Bertrand studied art for four years to the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, and then attended the Beaux–Arts in Paris.

Steve Stevaert

He was chairman from 2003 until he resigned on May 25, 2005, having been appointed governor of the province Limburg, in which function he succeeded governor Hilde Houben-Bertrand.

The Bel-Airs

Original Bel-Airs drummer Dick Dodd joined Bertrand in Eddie & the Showmen, and later joined The Standells, playing drums and singing lead on their major 1966 hit, "Dirty Water".

The Gnoufs

The Gnoufs, an animated cartoon created by Bertrand Santini, is shown on many TV stations such as Foxtel and the ABC.

Thousand Islands

The Thousand Islands gave their name to the popular Thousand Island dressing around the turn of the 20th century when Sophie LaLonde, of Clayton, New York who served the dressing at dinner for guests of her husband, a popular fishing guide, gave the recipe to Clayton hotel owner Ella Bertrand and New York City stage actress May Irwin.

UNRIC

Coolplanet2009 has joined forces with numerous so-called Cool Friends and Partners, such as Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Good Planet, the Icelandic rock band Sigur Rós, Björk’s NGO Náttúra and the three chairwomen of the Road to Copenhagen: Margot Wallström, Vice President of the European Commission, Gro Harlem Brundtland, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change and Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland.

Victor-Ferdinand Bourgeois

After the loss of his second wife, Bourgeois married Jeanne Marthe Bertrand on 19 March 1928 and they moved together to Dieulefit where she was born.


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